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Also, if an otherwise valid post contains vulgar words as an expression of frustration or nonsense content (e.g., to get around the question quality filter), edit the bad parts out instead of flagging the entire post as rude or abusive. If this results in an edit war or rollback war, flag for moderator attention. (Note that this is very different from handling an otherwise valid spam post.)

Also, if an otherwise valid post contains vulgar words as an expression of frustration or nonsense content (e.g., to get around the question quality filter), edit the bad parts out instead of flagging the entire post as rude or abusive. If this results in an edit war or rollback war, flag as "in need of moderator intervention" and explain the situation. (Note that this is very different from handling an otherwise valid spam post.)

• The post criticizes somebody or something in a civil manner.

• The post is a (civil) rant in disguise. If any part of the post can be salvaged, edit out the rant-y parts. If not, vote or flag to close as Opinion-based (for questions) or flag as not an answer (for answers).

• Somebody appears to have posted nonsense due to an innocent mistake such as a copy-and-paste error. This includes cases where a user with other useful contributions to the site posts nonsense - though if repeated, do use this flag.

• The post blatantly violates other site rules. This is what downvotes, close votes, and other flag types are for.

• The post is talking about rude words, such as writing code to filter profanity or objectively discussing the meaning of the rude words (example).

• If an otherwise valid post contains vulgar words as an expression of frustration, edit the bad part out instead of flagging the entire post as rude or abusive. If this results in an edit war or rollback war, flag for moderator attention.

  Note that this is very different from handling an otherwise salvageable spam post.

• If an otherwise valid question contains nonsense text used to get around the quality filter, edit the bad part out instead of flagging the entire post as rude or abusive.

• The post criticizes somebody or something in a civil manner.

• The post is a (civil) rant in disguise. If any part of the post can be salvaged, edit out the rant-y parts. If not, vote or flag to close as Opinion-based (for questions) or flag as not an answer (for answers).

• Somebody appears to have posted nonsense due to an innocent mistake such as a copy-and-paste error. This includes cases where a user with other useful contributions to the site posts nonsense - though if repeated, do use this flag.

• The post blatantly violates other site rules. This is what downvotes, close votes, and other flag types are for.

• The post is talking about rude words, such as writing code to filter profanity or objectively discussing the meaning of the rude words (example).

Also, if an otherwise valid post contains vulgar words as an expression of frustration or nonsense content (e.g., to get around the question quality filter), edit the bad parts out instead of flagging the entire post as rude or abusive. If this results in an edit war or rollback war, flag for moderator attention. (Note that this is very different from handling an otherwise valid spam post.)

A post should be marked as rude or abusive (formerly known as offensive) if it contains hate speech, obscenities, abuse against people, or abuse of the community or system, i.e., a clear violation of the Code of Conduct.

• Abuse of the system or community is everything that is created with the intention to harm them. This includes posts by users with no useful contributions to the site that contain no useful content at all – i.e. gibberish posts along the lines of:

  asdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdasd

• As a rule of thumb, everything that would be out of place in polite discourse is rude or abusive.

• If an otherwise valid post contains vulgar words as an expression of frustration, edit the bad part out instead of flagging the entire post as rude or abusive. If this results in an edit war or rollback war, flag for moderator attention.

  Note that this is very different from handling an otherwise salvageable spam post.

• The post criticizes somebody or something in a civil manner.

• The post is a (civil) rant in disguise. If any part of the post can be salvaged, edit out the rant-y parts. If not, vote or flag to close as Opinion-based (for questions) or flag as not an answer (for answers).

• Somebody appears to have posted nonsense due to an innocent mistake such as a copy-and-paste error. This includes cases where a user with other useful contributions to the site posts nonsense - though if repeated, do use this flag.

• The post blatantly violates other site rules. This is what downvotes, close votes, and other flag types are for.

• The post is talking about rude words, such as writing code to filter profanity or objectively discussing the meaning of the rude words (example).

A post should be marked as rude or abusive (formerly known as offensive) if it contains hate speech, obscenities, abuse against people, or abuse of the community or system, i.e., if the post is or contains a clear violation of the Code of Conduct.

• Abuse of the system or community is everything that is created with the intention to harm them. This includes posts by users with no useful contributions to the site that contain no useful content at all – i.e. gibberish posts along the lines of:

  asdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdasdasd

• As a rule of thumb, everything that would be out of place in polite discourse is rude or abusive.

• The post criticizes somebody or something in a civil manner.

• The post is a (civil) rant in disguise. If any part of the post can be salvaged, edit out the rant-y parts. If not, vote or flag to close as Opinion-based (for questions) or flag as not an answer (for answers).

• Somebody appears to have posted nonsense due to an innocent mistake such as a copy-and-paste error. This includes cases where a user with other useful contributions to the site posts nonsense - though if repeated, do use this flag.

• The post blatantly violates other site rules. This is what downvotes, close votes, and other flag types are for.

• The post is talking about rude words, such as writing code to filter profanity or objectively discussing the meaning of the rude words (example).

• If an otherwise valid post contains vulgar words as an expression of frustration, edit the bad part out instead of flagging the entire post as rude or abusive. If this results in an edit war or rollback war, flag for moderator attention.

  Note that this is very different from handling an otherwise salvageable spam post.

• If an otherwise valid question contains nonsense text used to get around the quality filter, edit the bad part out instead of flagging the entire post as rude or abusive.